College Kids To Spend $3.6 Billion On Dorm/Apt. Furnishings

PUB. DATE

August 2005

SOURCE

Home Textiles Today;8/22/2005, Vol. 26 Issue 46, p6

SOURCE TYPE

Trade Publication

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Reports on the findings of the National Retail Federation's 2005 Back-to-College Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey by BIGresearch. Finding that college students and parents will spend $34.4 billion on returning to campus in 2005; Increase from 2004; Indication that underclassmen will be the most lucrative targets for retailers in 2005.

ACCESSION #

18014851

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